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She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn't sign the Declaration of ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

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On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Most importantly, perhaps, we need to remember that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and signed by members of ...

When he first moved to Montgomery, it didn’t have a single marker that mentioned “slavery”, yet had 59 monuments to the Confederacy and three high schools named for its war generals and soldiers. This ...